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We’re not the only ones talking about the ‘Knowing-Doing Gap’ - Jeffrey Pfeffer’s great article Why can’t we get anything done? gives us this insight…
“Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it... It means tackling the hard work of making something happen. It's much easier and much safer to sit around and have intellectual conversations, to gather large databases, to invest in technical infrastructure — and never actually implement anything.”
He adds: “Ask yourself this question: Would you undergo heart surgery if the surgeon had been trained in the same way that business-school students are trained? Imagine that the surgeon had sat around in medical school discussing heart-surgery cases, watching heart-surgery videos, and listening to great heart surgeons talk about what they did — and now you're lying on the operating table, that surgeon's first real patient. Would you actually let that surgeon cut you open? I don't think so!”
This is just what we’re saying about project management, and why we’re so passionate about helping P3M professionals become more competent. It’s not just knowing, but doing that counts.
